BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Rachel Franklin - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Rachel Franklin X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://rachelfranklin.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Rachel Franklin REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T203000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250914T185938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250914T190200Z UID:4881-1761593400-1761597000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin at the Keese School: "The Pianistic Genius of Fryderyk Chopin" DESCRIPTION:https://www.keeseschool.org/\n \n \n \n \n \n Because of both his fragile health and the exquisite patina of his style\, our understanding of Chopin’s playing is sometimes clouded by romantic myth. While he only enjoyed performing for private audiences\, many reports show him to have been a mesmerizing player with a piano technique and harmony so revolutionary that it left other composes scrambling to keep up. \nWith live piano demonstrations\, performances and recordings\, speaker and concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin explores the creative output of this extraordinary and enigmatic genius. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-at-the-keese-school-the-pianistic-genius-of-fryderyk-chopin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/KeeseSchool.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250913T180539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180542Z UID:4791-1761246000-1761247800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-19/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250729T020440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020444Z UID:4750-1761048000-1761053400@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 3 - Diaghilev\, the Dream Weaver DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences love the spectacle and the sets\, adore the costumes\, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers\, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nHe didn’t dance\, choreograph\, or compose\, but nonetheless Serge Diaghilev was a ballet alchemist. From his command post in Paris he gathered extraordinary talents together from across the artistic universe to create new\, epochal ballet events that would shape dance up until the present day. Despite stormy relationships with most of them\, Diaghilev managed to persuade luminaries such as Ravel\, Debussy\, Manuel de Falla\, Stravinsky\, and Prokofiev to compose an unparalleled collection of scores for his legendary Ballets Russes. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-3-diaghilev-the-dream-weaver/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250913T180421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180425Z UID:4789-1760814000-1760815800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-18/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250729T020116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020201Z UID:4746-1760443200-1760448600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 2 - Tchaikovsky Changes Everything DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences love the spectacle and the sets\, adore the costumes\, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers\, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nTchaikovsky declared\, “I totally fail to understand how the expression ‘ballet music’ can be something disapproving!” He fought for his dance scores to be taken as seriously as his other works. His exquisite vision of fairytale beauty demanded an entirely new level of choreographic expression\, and both dancers and choreographers struggled to match his dramatic sweep. By surveying the history of Swan Lake\, The Nutcracker\, and The Sleeping Beauty\, Franklin offers insights into a new tradition of dance music that laid the groundwork for our richest ballet experiences today. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-2-tchaikovsky-changes-everything/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250913T180247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T180251Z UID:4787-1760209200-1760211000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-17/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250729T015800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T020006Z UID:4736-1759838400-1759843800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Ballet Music - The Soul of Movement\, Lecture 1 - From the Ballet de la Nuit to Coppélia: Desperately Seeking Composers DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/ballet-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Audiences love the spectacle and the sets\, adore the costumes\, and thrill to the brilliance and beauty of the choreography and the performers\, and above all we are moved and exalted by the music. While dance is as old as we are\, ballet is a much more recent evolution. By tracing ballet’s rapid journey from French courtly dance to an internationally beloved artform\, we find its path travels directly through the magnificent scores of composers like Debussy\, Stravinsky\, Copland\, and of course\, Tchaikovsky. \nIn a 4-session series\, speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin uses her unique live piano demonstrations and historic and contemporary film clips to illustrate how the music from such ballet masterpieces as Giselle\, Swan Lake\, Daphnis and Chloë\, Le Sacre du Printemps\, and Appalachian Spring became a treasured part of our cultural landscape. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nBallet is a unique experience in performance art\, but what really takes it to its greatest heights is the musical score. It’s a bald but undeniable fact that the finest ballets are driven by the finest music. But finding composers who understood how to write for dance wasn’t always easy. Franklin follows ballet’s escape from the French court\, its long-standing partnership with opera\, and the first great scores by Gluck\, Beethoven\, Adolphe Adam\, and Léo Delibes. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-ballet-music-the-soul-of-movement-lecture-1-from-the-ballet-de-la-nuit-to-coppelia-desperately-seeking-composers/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ballet-music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250913T175948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T175951Z UID:4784-1758999600-1759001400@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-16/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T201500 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T174628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T175450Z UID:4139-1754419500-1754424900@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Georges Bizet and Carmen - A Life in Music\, a Legacy in Opera DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/georges-bizet-and-carmen\n \n \n \n \n \n When Georges Bizet died suddenly and tragically at the early age of 36 in 1875\, his new opera\, Carmen\, had just been dubbed a humiliating failure\, panned by critics at its Paris premiere barely three months beforehand. Bizet would never know that only a few months later its performances in Vienna\, St. Petersburg\, London\, and New York were triumphant\, and this vibrant and revolutionary work has never been absent from the world’s opera stages since then. \nIn this 150th anniversary year of both Bizet’s death and Carmen’s birth\, popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin explores how\, despite enjoying only modest success during his lifetime\, Bizet’s innovative\, emotionally compelling style has influenced countless composers and profoundly shaped opera history to this day. Additional works showcased include his opera The Pearl Fishers\, the Symphony in C\, and his L’Arlésienne Suites. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-georges-bizet-and-carmen-a-life-in-music-a-legacy-in-opera/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bizet_Carmen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T173738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T173742Z UID:4133-1753272000-1753277400@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel\, Lecture 2 - "I never look back. I do not want to repeat myself." DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel\n \n \n \n \n \n “Music should be the beautiful\, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant\, caress\, and disturb.”  —Maurice Ravel \nThe music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism\, delicacy\, passion\, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken phrase and melody. Concert pianist and speaker Rachel Franklin celebrates Ravel’s 150th birthday by exploring a wide range of his works from such greatly loved masterpieces as Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse to solo display works like Tzigane that dazzle with their beauty and technical brilliance. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nFollowing devastating experiences at the front during the Great War\, Ravel used irony\, jazz\, cabaret and other modern popular styles to extend his language and express his evolving aesthetic. Whatever style he chose to explore\, his music remained utterly individual\, both intensely sophisticated and profoundly moving. Listen to selections from his opera L’enfant et les sortilèges\, piano concertos for one and both hands\, and works that directly reflect the tragic war years\, Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-the-exquisite-enigma-of-maurice-ravel-lecture-2-i-never-look-back-i-do-not-want-to-repeat-myself/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ravel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T173324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T174103Z UID:4127-1752667200-1752672600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: The Exquisite Enigma of Maurice Ravel\, Lecture 1 - "I am neither a romantic nor a classic. I am myself." DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel\n \n \n \n \n \n “Music should be the beautiful\, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant\, caress\, and disturb.”  —Maurice Ravel \nThe music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism\, delicacy\, passion\, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken phrase and melody. Concert pianist and speaker Rachel Franklin celebrates Ravel’s 150th birthday by exploring a wide range of his works from such greatly loved masterpieces as Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse to solo display works like Tzigane that dazzle with their beauty and technical brilliance. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nIn the years before World War I Ravel carved out a highly distinctive path for himself as a young innovator\, creating ravishing sonic worlds that both seduced and confused his listeners. Selections include his ballet Daphnis et Chloé\, piano works Jeux d’Eau and Gaspard de la Nuit\, and his String Quartet in F. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-the-exquisite-enigma-of-maurice-ravel-lecture-1-i-am-neither-a-romantic-nor-a-classic-i-am-myself/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ravel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250701T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250701T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T180659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T180703Z UID:4166-1751371200-1751376600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music - A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers\, Lecture 4 - The Artist as Musician\, the Composer as Model DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Music and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia\, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty\, just as composers have sought to render art’s vibrant colors in pure sound. \nPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin leads a fascinating exploration into the intimate relationship between the visible and invisible arts and how music can literally bind the arts together. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nMany great artists were also musicians. Ingres\, Delacroix\, Klee\, and Matisse\, all were passionate instrumentalists. How did their deep friendships with composers and constant musical immersion shape their art? Franklin delves into the meaning behind some famous portraits of Chopin and Paganini and considers how Matisse and Klee expressed the essential presence of music in their own lives. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-art-meets-music-a-duet-of-visual-artists-and-composers-lecture-4-the-artist-as-musician-the-composer-as-model/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ArtMeetsMusic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T180019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T180022Z UID:4156-1750766400-1750771800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music - A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers\, Lecture 3 - The Sharps: Family Harmony DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Music and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia\, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty\, just as composers have sought to render art’s vibrant colors in pure sound. \nPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin leads a fascinating exploration into the intimate relationship between the visible and invisible arts and how music can literally bind the arts together. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nMeet the Sharps. Behind Johan Joseph Zoffany’s joyful late-18th-century portrait of a musical party on the Thames that depicts the family of Granville Sharp playing together lies a powerful celebration of social harmony and a true commitment to justice. Franklin explores this fascinating intersection of art\, music\, and history to find that the entertaining Sharps have a harmonious message for today: love music\, give back\, and always wear big hats. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-art-meets-music-a-duet-of-visual-artists-and-composers-lecture-3-the-sharps-family-harmony/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ArtMeetsMusic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T175702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T180355Z UID:4151-1750161600-1750167000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music - A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers\, Lecture 2 - Symbols and Allegories: Art’s Hidden Musical Codes DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Music and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia\, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty\, just as composers have sought to render art’s vibrant colors in pure sound. \nPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin leads a fascinating exploration into the intimate relationship between the visible and invisible arts and how music can literally bind the arts together. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nHumans have been playing music for more than 40\,000 years and images of us with our instruments abound from Neolithic times onwards. From intimate family portraits to massive historical\, religious\, and allegorical artworks\, music and musicians are embedded throughout the history of art. Many of these works contain secret codes that contemporary viewers would have understood. Franklin interprets glorious paintings by artists such as Lippi\, Vermeer\, and Hogarth and offers music that would have been performed at the time. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-art-meets-music-a-duet-of-visual-artists-and-composers-lecture-2-symbols-and-allegories-arts-hidden-musical-codes/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ArtMeetsMusic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250615T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250615T143000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250105T200836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T200839Z UID:3988-1749996000-1749997800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-15/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T133000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175324 CREATED:20250621T175410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T180542Z UID:4145-1749556800-1749562200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Art Meets Music - A Duet of Visual Artists and Composers\, Lecture 1 - Chagall at the Opera: A Listener’s Guide DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/art-meets-music\n \n \n \n \n \n Music and the visual arts have always walked hand in hand. For millennia\, artists have obsessed about how to represent music’s invisible beauty\, just as composers have sought to render art’s vibrant colors in pure sound. \nPopular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin leads a fascinating exploration into the intimate relationship between the visible and invisible arts and how music can literally bind the arts together. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nMarc Chagall said “I wanted to represent\, as in a mirror\, a bunch of dreams\, the creations of the actors and musicians; to keep in mind the colorful clothes of the audience stirring on the lower level. To sing like a bird\, free of any theory and method. To render homage to the great composers of operas and ballets.” From the Paris Opéra Garnier to New York’s Metropolitan Opera\, Chagall created utterly unique murals\, sets\, and costumes for opera houses and theaters worldwide that changed theatrical design forever. Franklin surveys the many composers he glorified and discusses how they inspired him. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-art-meets-music-a-duet-of-visual-artists-and-composers-lecture-1-chagall-at-the-opera-a-listeners-guide/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ArtMeetsMusic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T200713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T200716Z UID:3986-1749322800-1749324600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-14/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T200611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T200615Z UID:3984-1748545200-1748547000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-13/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T200444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T200448Z UID:3982-1747508400-1747510200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-12/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T200117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T200121Z UID:3980-1746126000-1746127800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-11/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T143000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T195738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T195742Z UID:3978-1745762400-1745764200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-10/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T220000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250118T224446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T224450Z UID:4075-1745695800-1745704800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin performs Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:https://fredericksymphony.org/event/alpine-vistas\n \n \n \n \n \n All Brahms concert featuring local pianist Rachel Franklin performing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor\, Brahms’ Tragic Overture\, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-performs-brahms-piano-concerto-no-1-with-the-frederick-symphony-orchestra/ LOCATION:Kussmaul Theatre\, Frederick Community College\, 7932 Opossumtown Pike\, Frederick\, 21701\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brahms_Rachel.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T195622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T195626Z UID:3976-1744916400-1744918200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-9/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250118T214959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T220556Z UID:4047-1743422400-1743429600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists - Brahms DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianists\n \n \n \n \n \n Popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin guides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. \nWith a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to the white-hot moments of creation and performance when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did the composers’ musical imaginations and their signature performance styles influence the development of how pianos would be constructed and sound? And did their contemporary audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin offers a fascinating exploration into the creative minds—and hands—of a quartet of piano pioneers celebrated for their prowess as composers and performers. She concludes each lecture with a live performance of a work by the spotlighted composer. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nBrahms trained intensely as a pianist and all his compositions for the instrument demand a prodigious and highly controlled technique. He was also a renowned pedagogue\, and he and his muse Clara Schumann taught many students whose playing was subsequently captured by early recording\, providing a tantalizing glimpse into the performing styles of the 19th century. \n  URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-great-composer-pianists-brahms/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brahms.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250118T214123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T225348Z UID:4041-1742817600-1742824800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists - Chopin DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianists\n \n \n \n \n \n Popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin guides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. \nWith a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to the white-hot moments of creation and performance when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did the composers’ musical imaginations and their signature performance styles influence the development of how pianos would be constructed and sound? And did their contemporary audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin offers a fascinating exploration into the creative minds—and hands—of a quartet of piano pioneers celebrated for their prowess as composers and performers. She concludes each lecture with a live performance of a work by the spotlighted composer. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nBecause of both his fragile health and the exquisite patina of his style\, our understanding of Chopin’s playing is sometimes clouded by romantic myth. While he only enjoyed performing for private audiences\, many reports show him to have been a mesmerizing player with a piano technique and harmony so revolutionary that it left his brilliant friend Franz Liszt scrambling to keep up. \n  URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-great-composer-pianists-chopin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chopin.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T195417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T195421Z UID:3974-1742670000-1742671800@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-8/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250118T213241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T213245Z UID:4037-1742212800-1742220000@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists - Beethoven DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianists\n \n \n \n \n \n Popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin guides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. \nWith a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to the white-hot moments of creation and performance when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did the composers’ musical imaginations and their signature performance styles influence the development of how pianos would be constructed and sound? And did their contemporary audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin offers a fascinating exploration into the creative minds—and hands—of a quartet of piano pioneers celebrated for their prowess as composers and performers. She concludes each lecture with a live performance of a work by the spotlighted composer. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nMozart may have enchanted his listeners\, but Beethoven overwhelmed and frequently disturbed them. While constantly harassing piano makers for stronger instruments and dealing with encroaching deafness\, Beethoven created entirely new piano techniques almost by accident as he fought to express his titanic ideas on the instrument. \n  URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-great-composer-pianists-beethoven/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Beethoven.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250118T212502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T212506Z UID:4031-1741608000-1741615200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Smithsonian Associates: Great Composer-Pianists - Mozart DESCRIPTION:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/great-composer-pianists\n \n \n \n \n \n Popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin guides a unique look at the monumental keyboard talents of four great composer-pianists and how their performing virtuosity influenced the piano works we enjoy today. \nWith a legacy of printed compositions but no recordings\, how can we get closer to the white-hot moments of creation and performance when these artists poured out their genius for fortunate and astonished listeners? How did the composers’ musical imaginations and their signature performance styles influence the development of how pianos would be constructed and sound? And did their contemporary audiences even comprehend what they were hearing? \nFranklin offers a fascinating exploration into the creative minds—and hands—of a quartet of piano pioneers celebrated for their prowess as composers and performers. She concludes each lecture with a live performance of a work by the spotlighted composer. \nBritish-born Franklin has been a featured speaker for organizations including the Library of Congress and NPR\, exploring intersections among classical and jazz music\, film scores\, and the fine arts. \n——————————————————————————————————————————————— \nMozart’s playing was regarded as simply wondrous. Franklin examines his beginnings as a harpsichord player and how he subsequently pivoted directly to the recently developed pianofortes\, creating new concerto styles that both dazzled and confused his audiences. \n  URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/smithsonian-associates-great-composer-pianists-mozart/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mozart.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T195301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T195303Z UID:3972-1741460400-1741462200@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-7/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T193000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175325 CREATED:20250105T195024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T195028Z UID:3970-1740682800-1740684600@rachelfranklin.com SUMMARY:Rachel Franklin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Inside the Classics DESCRIPTION:https://www.bsomusic.org/inside-the-classics/\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Rachel Franklin is delighted to be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore Music Scholar-in-Residence. She gives all the BSO’s pre-concert presentations at their Bethesda\, MD venue\, Strathmore Hall as part of their “Inside the Classics” series. URL:https://rachelfranklin.com/event/rachel-franklin-for-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-inside-the-classics-6/ LOCATION:Music Center at Strathmore\, 5301 Tuckerman Ln\, North Bethesda\, MD\, 20852\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rachelfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BaltimoreSymphonyOrchestra.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR